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    Well the Russians can get to Georgia pretty easily, so they can threaten Florida from there!
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    I have some neat images from Firefly APDS trials with the shot groups overlaid on a Panther turret silhouette. Shame it's more scanning/compression artefacts than original drawing though. I should really just redraw those from scratch.
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    It's actually significantly thinner than the KV-1 book, unfortunately.
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    "Where it all began"
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    Two new books came in. Kolomiets' KV-1 book needs no introduction, and while I have no idea who this Sorokin guy is, the reviews for this book were good.
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    Well, that's why infantry has to train alongside tanks. Also M60 OP pls nerf
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    IS-3 going hull-down
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    Soviet documents call German tanks T-[number] instead of Pz[number], so the Panther is T-5 or T-V. Sometimes the typewriter has no way to write Roman numerals and you see them called T-У. The PzIII in this case is Т-Ш
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    Derp, wires crossed in my brain. According to the docs, a Sherman turret weighs 6 tons, a Firefly turret weighs 6.9 tons, and a Sherman was tested with an extra 1.5 ton weight (2x 15 cwt) on the turret to simulate the load of the gun.
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    @Jeeps_Guns_Tanks how much did a Sherman turret weigh? A document I have says that a regular Sherman (M4A4, I guess?) turret weighed 6 tons, and a Firefly turret weighed 6.9 tons. Are these normal tons or some kind of weird British ton?
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    Saw one of those in a store here, had a giggle. The quality or accuracy isn't really comparable to modern stuff, and that hard brittle plastic isn't great to work with, but hey, it's ten bucks.
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    First completed build of the year!
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    Hahaha that's amazing.
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    How's the quality of the new stuff?
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    Interesting, I get almost no Pinterest traffic. That probably explains it.
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    Wow, those are some really good numbers. I've just broken 100k pageviews per month for December 2017 (according to Google Analytics, anyway). What's your secret?
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    Ironically, Shermans with extended end connectors showed poorer traction somehow. I'd dive deeper into the subject, but the Mud and Snow Committee documents are incredibly fucking boring.
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    Ooh, here's a fun bit to rile up the wehraboos
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    Huh, apparently Platypus grousers didn't really affect the sinkage in mud all that much.
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    Because it turns out that in order to have an effective mechanized force, you need rubber, oil, iron, and a population that is familiar with motorized vehicles. Germany had none of those things. Also their situation with nickel was more hilarious than I thought, in 1940 they were forced to recall all nickel coins, which increased the nickel stockpile by 50%. No wonder they stopped putting it in armour.
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